OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 17 shown for “Inrō with the Noh Play Dōjōji (obverse) and Flowering Cherry Tree (reverse)” — 46 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:23 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Inrō with the Noh Play Dōjōji (obverse) and Flowering Cherry Tree (reverse)

Inrō with the Noh Play Dōjōji (obverse) and Flowering Cherry Tree (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Platter, by W. S. Coleman

Platter

W. S. Coleman · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Flowering Cherry Tree (obverse); Parrot in Ornamental Swing (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Flowering Cherry Tree (obverse); Parrot in Ornamental Swing (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Noh Mask with Red Sun above Pine Trees (obverse); Props for a Noh Play (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Noh Mask with Red Sun above Pine Trees (obverse); Props for a Noh Play (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Two Cranes beneath a Flowering Cherry (obverse); Pheasant beside a Peony (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Two Cranes beneath a Flowering Cherry (obverse); Pheasant beside a Peony (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Pine and Cherry Tree (obverse); Rooster and Hen on a Drum (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Pine and Cherry Tree (obverse); Rooster and Hen on a Drum (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brisé fan

Brisé fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LE PETIT CHARIOT / LES MANGEURS DE CERISES, by François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755

LE PETIT CHARIOT / LES MANGEURS DE CERISES

François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches of Trees, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Sketches of Trees

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · April 27, 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 6 matched · 6 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1972181 matched · 40 examined · 23 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 16:23 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.